Quotes by Thomas Peacock

• I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
• There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.
• The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
• Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
• Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
• Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
• I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
• A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.